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...neutral observers, its 42 local offices throughout South Viet Nam and its fleet of black-and-silver planes, has managed to complete investigations and file final reports on only six truce violations. At week's end, two helicopters carrying eleven ICCS members were reported missing in Northern Quang Tri province; one of the choppers was believed to have been hit by ground fire...
...corner was Saigon's Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam; in another stood Major General Le Quang Hoa, Hanoi's top man at the JMC, chatting amiably with Lieut. General Gilbert Woodward, his crusty American counterpart. "After the first 60 days of the cease-fire are over," Hoa told Woodward, "you must come to visit Hanoi." Woodward guffawed, then glowered at an eavesdropping journalist...
...tempting, reading Pogue's rich book, to speculate on how Marshall would have survived the democratic strains of another era - especially the bitter national divisions of the recent past. If he would not let one American die for Rhodes, could he have kept one from dying for Quang Tri or An Loc? The questions are unanswerable, though they reach toward one of the crucial is sues of Viet Nam - the extent to which a democracy can wage a war not supported by the national will, and the extent to which such a will can be manipulated. In any case...
Both Vietnamese sides launched a numbers campaign, charging massive violations of the cease-fire by the other. The Communists claimed Saigon forces had committed 24,000 violations and had lobbed precisely 12,523 shells in Quang Tri Province. Saigon claimed 5,540 Communist violations since the agreement was signed. More seriously, the State Department revealed U.S. intelligence estimates of a new Communist troop build-up along the Laotian border, including the southward movement of tanks, and the setting up of SA-2 antiaircraft batteries at Khe Sanh...
...February 4 New York Times Magazine printed selections from diaries found on dead Vietnamese. "I wish one day that I could see my family again," wrote Bui Quang Vinh, from a village north of Hanoi. "...If anyone, any comrade, any friend, happens to read this note, please have understanding for me. I have been so long in this...